Liberal Arts and Sciences

Maine media feature Ferrini-Mundy’s lifetime achievement award

 News Center Maine and the Bangor Daily News promoted University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy being honored with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ (NCTM) Lifetime Achievement Award during the organization’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington D.C.

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University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy helps a student with their coursework during a mathematics class in early 2020. Photo courtesy of the University of Maine.

President Ferrini-Mundy earns national lifetime achievement award in mathematics education

University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy will be honored with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ (NCTM) Lifetime Achievement Award on Wednesday, Oct. 25 during the organization’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington D.C.  Ferrini-Mundy, who has taught secondary and college-level mathematics and researched ways to improve both for nearly five decades, is […]

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College art tent featured by WFVX

WFVX (Channel 7) featured a college art tent offered by the University of Maine McGillicuddy Humanities Center during the Sidewalk Art Festival in Bangor. “It gives you an opportunity to build your portfolio and then build a market,” said Freya Drew, a UMaine art education student, about participating and showcasing her work in the festival.

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Thompson elected to American Physical Society’s Fellows

John Thompson, chair of the University of Maine Department of Physics and Astronomy, was named a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society.  Thompson was elected as a fellow “for performing seminal research on student use of mathematics in physics and the learning and teaching of thermal physics, for leading interdisciplinary collaborations and conferences, and […]

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Popular film podcast hosts to discuss horror movie classics at UMaine talk

The hosts of the film podcast “I Saw What You Did” will discuss horror movie classics adapted from Stephen King’s novels in a talk at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19 at the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center.  Millie De Chirico and Danielle Henderson will talk attendees through the films “Pet Sematary” and […]

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School of Performing Arts presents ‘Rabbit Hole’ Oct. 19-22

The University of Maine School of Performing Arts Division of Theatre and Dance is bringing one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed plays to the Hauck Auditorium. “Rabbit Hole,” by David Lindsay-Abaire, will be running from Oct 19-22, with performances at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, 20 and 21, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 21 […]

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Media highlight partial solar eclipse viewing at UMaine

The Associated Press, the Mirror, Spectrum News, the Bangor Daily News and WFVX (Channel 7) highlighted a partial solar eclipse viewing event hosted by the Versant Power Astronomy Center during Homecoming 2023 at the University of Maine. “As the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, it casts its shadow on our planet. In […]

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Boston Globe interviews Brewer about shifting political landscape

University of Maine political science professor Mark Brewer spoke to The Boston Globe about recent voting trends, particularly a growth in partisanship and a new law in Maine that allows independents to vote in state and presidential primaries. “The reality,” he said, “is most independents lean” toward one party or the other.  

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